Farewell, Cassini. We’ll always have your photos. NASA’s Cassini orbiter hurtled into Saturn at nearly 80,000 miles an hour to incinerate itself on Friday morning, ending its 20-year mission. NASA still has a ton of data to sift through, including the spacecraft’s closest sniff of Saturn’s atmosphere as it melted the orbiter into nothing. Here are some of the most stunning photos it captured.
Your identity is for sale on the dark web. Verified high-limit credit cards from countries including the U.S., Japan, and South Korea are selling on the dark web for the bitcoin equivalent of about $10 to $20, according to an annual report on cybercrime. It’s not just credit cards: An underground hacker market is selling identities that are detailed enough to facilitate “impersonation-based fraud” for as little as $10 apiece.
Amtrak wants to remind you how awful flying is. As former CEO of Delta, Richard Anderson knows why so many people hate air travel — and he appears ready to exploit those pain points in his new role as president and co-CEO of Amtrak. From free Wi-Fi to the absence of middle seats to the two bags you may check for free, Amtrak is pitching itself as a more comfortable, civilized travel alternative to an airline.
Where are the Mar-a-Lago visitor logs? A government transparency group vowed to continue a court battle to open visitor logs at Trump’s Florida resort, after the administration provided only the names of Japanese staff who attended a February visit from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Ethics specialists have criticized Trump for not divesting from his business holdings, including Mar-a-Lago, saying they provide an avenue for those seeking influence to curry the president’s favor.
Read this before you spend $2 billion on your own submarine. For those bored with multimillion-dollar megayachts, with their ho-hum helipads and snooze-inducing jacuzzis, consider the 928-foot-long M7, designed by the Austrian company, Migaloo Private Submersible Yachts.
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It’s only a matter of very short time when travel w/ Amtrak will require a pat down of one’s junk by homeland security perverts.
Yep, pat downs and X-Rays, especially in light of latest bombing in UK. You can damage a lot of flesh with a nail bomb in an enclosed metal tube.